Channelknight Fadran

I beg to differ. Hard magic systems are easier to hook onto.

Here're some Ideas of Fadran (TM) from the void: Magic Castles (need to exist more) Potted Plant Wizards Etherea (an aura-based magic system like from HxH - ask for more details) Steampunk train pirates That one D&D campaign I did that never took off (everyone is effectively immortal because when you die you're reincarnated into an undead - the coolness of said undead is directly proportional to what kind of person you were in your previous life) Soulcatchers (Magic is fueled by souls that people go out and capture) Absolutely gigantic forest SPAAAAAAAAAAACE (except it's just magically-sealed airtight flying castles and people still use swords and stuff) Something like pokemon (or aspects of it, at least; having capturable beings of power) All of the above, in its entirety

See, the problem is... ...I don't have Brandofandomitis

Some Updates:

Gosh... hecking... heck... Melun was no longer dropping into form with each whistle blow. She wasn't even awkwardly crawling down into position like she had near the end of the last thirty minutes. Now, it was all she could do not to just collapse onto her face and pray to the gods that it would all be over soon. With each whistle blow she slumped against the wall, gasping and hacking for breath. On a good day she knew she could run for an hour straight - probably more - but something about this training just took it out of her. Maybe it was the terrain; maybe it was the atmosphere. But no... it had to be that she didn't have any clue as to how long or far they'd be running. No general estimate or idea. The Captain could call them to do it again and again if he pleased. In a sense, she figured, the reason her knees were already wobbling and every muscle burned in agony were because she didn't know what they were running to.

Round 6 Recap: The Republic of Astrym successfully starts a civil war Nam-Ed forms a treaty with Serenitas... not The Dalyans create lizard warriors that wind up getting them clapped (to the surprise of absolutely no one) Eshael Navar summons another eldritch evil to destroy the pitarese, which goes terribly (to the surprise of absolutely no one) Lynara somehow wiggles out of the war with the Auyaevells and Vaebudal The Wrizrecan Empire invades the Ouphamenial Tribunal, gets clapped, but gets to keep their kingdom anyways somehow (I think we ruled that he's a puppet king at this point) The King of Serenitas starts drafting kids into the army as a literal population control method, which the High Priest doesn't really appreciate The Gahestian Empire tries and fails to form a treaty with Not-Luxembourg (to the surprise of absolutely no one) The Commune of Vandora discovers a fancy new magic metal but can't figure out how to use it yet Realmingsburg successfully pushes the timeline into the gunpowder era, creating the first-ever cannons Psmithania gets nothing done (but we learned that the AI can figure out their stupid P thing) Siel creates fun commercial gliders for people (yay!) Map: The Sitch: 0017: The Commune of Vandora discovers a new metal Turmoil starts to break out in the Republic of Astrym The Dalyrans begin to research military applications for their ancient well of power 0018: Nam-Ed tries and fails to form a treaty with Serenitas The Gahestian Empire tries and fails to form a treaty with Not-Luxembourg The Commune of Vandora tries and fails to form a treaty with literally anyone 0019: Eshael Navar summons ancient horrors of the deep, which goes horribly The Astrolog Empire breaks away from the Republic of Astrym The Dalryans create brand-new lizard warriors Lynara accidentally stops being at war with the Auyaevell Empire and the Republic of Vaebudal 0020: The Wrizrecan Empire wages war on the Ouphamenial Tribunal Siel creates fun little gliders for everybody :D The new Dalryan lizardmen wind up getting Dalyra defeated Serenitas decides there are one too many people in their kingdom and start sending children to war 0021: The Ouphamenial Tribunal defeats the Wrizrecans and places their emperor as a puppet king at its head Realmingsburg invents the cannon

I like doing art... ...but I've never played MTG

Completely caught up now. I can't stop smiling. I could die a happy man if I finished this series first. It's going to be TWELVE EPISODES??? We're only six in!

The ruler of Siel, deciding that they need a better way of getting between the sky island and the lands below, commands that the engineers and explorers work together to discover what causes their nation to float and see if they can build some sort of skyship. Because of their location, they already have a massive advantage over the other nations. It's unlikely that anyone else has discovered the secret of flight, so they should be able to get away with testing out their theories before others catch on. The people of Siel begin experimenting with various ideas, trying to figure out how to make things fly. One engineer tries to construct a set of wings that would connect to the body and allow the wearer to fly, but he fails miserably. Another makes a small flying device that is powered by a chemical reaction. Unfortunately, this contraption explodes. A third engineer builds a glider made of wood. He tests it in the air and succeeds, but he dies while doing so. His son quickly takes over and continues his experiments. After several failures, he creates a working model that requires no outside power source. He names it the flyer, and soon enough, the majority of Siel's population is flocking around him to try it out. While the flyers prove popular among the people, they haven't actually solved the problem of transporting goods and people. A few enterprising individuals realize that if they could build a skyship, they would be able to bypass the need for the flyers altogether. As a result, Siel's engineers team up with some explorers to find a solution. You have a new resource: Flyers!

Or we should decrease the speed of time to achieve the same effect.

Dude. It was so good. How did it get even better.

Dannnnnnnnexish

To those whom it may concern: I wasn't planning on making a sequel to this post. Frankly, I didn't think there was much else to say. But then I was reading What If? 2 by Randall Munroe. This is not a paid promotion or an advertisement, but GO FRIGGIN READ IT. And the first one, for that matter. In one of the sections, he brings up in a footnote that the distance light travels in one nanosecond is roughly 11.8 inches: a distance, he notes, that is "frustratingly close to a foot," and then jokingly proposes we redefine the foot to exactly one light nanosecond. So of course I'm going to do that right here and now. First up, we need the speed of light. 299,792,458 m / s: a frighteningly strange number. In most science classes you'll round it to 300,000,000; or 2.99e8 if you aren't a casual. Next, we need to convert that to feet. I totally did this completely be hand and didn't use google converters to get 983,571,056.43045, which I'm going to round to 983,571,056 to give the future generations something to complain about. There we have the speed of light per second in feet; but we need to crunch it down to one nanosecond. To do that all you need to do is shift the decimal up nine slots, giving us about 0.9835... feet. I used another handy-dandy calculator series of hand calculations to get roughly 11.802 inches. Wonderful! We've successfully proven that Mr. Munroe was correct. Now we can move along to the cooler bits. So what happens if we redefine the foot to exactly one light-nanosecond? Well, my friends. The foot would go from how we know it today to just about almost as big as we know it today. In other words, I need a visual. Unfortunately, most paper isn't quite a foot on the long edge, so I found a 6-inch notecard instead (and completely on accident, too. I was planning on scaling one foot down to an inch but got lucky). So here's six inches: Compared to how long six inches should be: So what happens to our other units when we make this conversion? Well, everything (in the imperial system) becomes approximately 0.0165% smaller. If we kept the mile as 5280 feet (which is the worst number), then the length of it would change to about 5192 Old Feet (si). I looked up the new feet-to-meter conversion, hoping it would be a bit closer to a 3:1. Now instead of 3 feet making up 0.9144 meters, 3 feet makes up 0.899 meters; which is so close to just flat-out 0.9. This actually comes out surprisingly close to simply 35.5 New Inches (si) (it's roughly 35.406). For all intents and purposes, we could simply say a meter is "three feet minus half an inch," which is way better than "so, like... three feet? But... wait. Is it more or less? *Looks up conversion* okay, so... one meter is 39.37 inches. So like... three feet plus three point three inches, I guess? Or maybe three point four... I dunno." So we did it, right? hahahahahahahahahahaha hahaha no No, there are more units in the Imperial System that we use all the time. Okay, but, for the record, I won't be going into all of them. If you want to, go ahead and multiply them by 0.9835. By all means, go redefine the "chain" and the "furlong" or whatever the heck a "twip" is. It's a bit more complicated to convert units of area and volume, so I'm going to go into those next. First up: the acre. This is defined as 4840 square yards, which is just about as unhelpful a number as it gets. It isn't even a perfect square: it's roughly 69 (nice) point 5701 yards across, assuming we have a perfectly square acre. That makes 208.71 Old Feet (si), or 2504.52 Old Inches (si) on edge, which are both numbers we can plug our handy-dandy converter onto. We get a brand-new acre side of 205.2666 Old Feet (si), or 68.4222 Old Yards (si). Squaring that, we get 4681.597 square yards for one acre. I was wrong. That number is just about unhelpful as it gets. But we'll get to fixing that later. Next up we have our primary unit of volume in imperial: Fluid Ounces. These are how we define pints, quarts, and gallons... and also "gills," apparently. A fl oz is roughly 1.7339 cubic inches, which is awful. Fortunately, it's still just math, and - WAIT! FADRAN! We can't just change the definition of a fluid ounce that easily! Why's that? Because it's defined by one 160th of a gallon, or how much space ten gallons of water takes up! If you changed the fluid ounce, you'd have to change literal friggin water: another near constant of the universe! Hrm. You're right of course, me. Of course I am. And beautiful. Oh, shut up. *Blushes* So now we've stumbled upon a new dynamic: fixing other imperial units of measurement. We've completely redone single-dimension units, but from what we've seen so far it's probably for the best that we do two and three-dimensional measurements individually as well. Let's go back to the acre real quick. It's a unit of area, which means it can be defined in terms of squares. That means that we should probably find a perfect square that's pretty close to current definition and go from there. Currently it's 4640 square yards, so we want to be in the high-ish 4000s ballpark. I looked up a list of perfect squares and apparently there's a perfectly good 4624 that we can use, or 68 * 68. I was curious as to how this stacked up in terms of Old Feet - y'know, to know how much the farmers have to re-measure their fields or whatever. 4640 Old Yards squared is... well, 4640 Old Yards squared. I don't really know how to visualize that. The same goes for 4624 New Yards squared, which comes out to roughly 4472.66688 Old Yards squared. That's quite a way's off, isn't it? Nearly two hundred (old) yards squared. So I went to the next perfect square. 4761. If we make the New Acre 4761 New square Yards, then it comes out to about 4605.183 Old Yards squared. Now we're only off by about 35 Old Yards squared, which I personally think is a great improvement But that's not all. Because you see 4761 is So now we have to worry about gallons and pints and quarts and scud. Now, many of you should argue that we should just stick to metric units of volume instead of imperial. After all, one cubic millimeter of water (or "millileter") equates to EXACTLY one gram. Here's why you're wrong. One gram is not some magic number. It, as much as anything else, is a contrived unit. Now you might argue that one mole of a given element gives you its atomic weight in grams, and therefore the unit is still superior: but you're wrong AGAIN. You FOOL. I mean, look at Avagadro's Constant! 6.02214076×10^23? Do you call that clean? No! It, as much as anything else, is completely contrived. The gram is not magically equal to "exactly" something of something. Basically what I'm saying is that you can't hate on gallons for being "ten pounds of water," because a pound is just as arbitrary a number as a kilogram is. Are the numbers associated with it worse? Yes. Is the metric system still way more useful in every situation ever? Of course! But that's as far as the superiority goes: both systems are still completely arbitrary. 'Course, the gallon was defined back in the 1800s. It needs some fixing, most likely. For y'alls information, the gallon was defined first in 1824 as the volume ten pounds of room temperature water takes up (room temperature so that it hasn't expanded or contracted; ten because that's a good number). It was then quartered into - you guessed it - a quart, which was in turn halved into a pint. A fluid ounce is 1/20th of a pint (and a gill is 1/4 of a pint). A gallon is 160 pints. What this means is that we probably shouldn't change it, on second thought. It's based almost entirely on constants outside of the rest of the imperial system: and good constants at that. But I was curious, so I started by figuring out how many New cubic Inches an Old Gallon would be. Wikipedia tells me a gallon is 277.42 cubic inches (correct to five significant figures). That means 6.519768931 inches on edge. Plug in our converter and BAM: 6.41436427437 inches on edge, or 263.913 cubic inches. Personally I think that "almost 264" is better than "277 and a half-ish." Still... it isn't that great a number. It was then that I realized there was something else we could change in order to make ourselves a cleaner gallon: The definition of a pound because hoo boy is this one stupid. Take a good look at this: Currently, a pound is officially known as an "avoirdupois pound." It is equal to 0.45359237 kg. It's also equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces. What is an avoirdupouis ounce? Arbitrary, is what it is. We can do better. But where to start? I decided to reverse-engineer this one. There isn't jack scud we can do about water's density (and believe me; people have tried), so let's use that. A gallon is roughly equivalent to 4.54609 Liters. That's pretty close to a better number: let's go from there. Let's redefine a gallon to 4.5 Liters. That's a good number. Next up we take how much water can fit in that (4.5 kilograms) and divide that by ten. A pound is now 0.45 kilograms. Math is fun! The New Gallon (si) is 274.607 Old Inches, or ~270.1 (270.0759845) New Inches. Much cleaner! Let's review: The Foot has been redefined to "1 Light Nanosecond." All one-dimensional units of measurement are reduced by 0.0165%, or to 0.9835 times their original size. We overhauled the Acre, making it 4761 New Yards squared. The gallon has been redefined to 4.5 liters. The pound has been redefined alongside it to 0.45 kilograms. Everything is better. VOTE FADRAN FOR 2022 PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL BEREAU OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

Watched up to Ep. 3. That's the only one imma talk about.

No, I didn't quit. I fell behind because I got a job. Here's some backlog to keep y'all occupied: Oct 6: Oct 7: Aight luvya bye

It's kinda funny in my case, actually. My friend has had it for years, but I never remembered to ask to borrow it. It wasn't until the HD version had come out and everyone was playing it that I finally borrowed Skyward Sword and played it through. I got a few snickers here and there confusing people when I told them I'd beaten it recently... on the wii.

Oh hey! An anomaly! Nice to meet you.